Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Fashion Victim: When Is An Ascot Not An Ascot?

A lot of hairdressers and non-hairdressers alike are talking about the hilarious video screenshotted (is that even a word?) above, where this total queen tries to convince us that 1. hairdresserdom (words invented especially for this post so far: two) is a sin and 2. he's not one. Well, haw, he isn't convincing anybody. But! That's not what I want to discuss. This is what I want to discuss:

"Nice Ascot" – Andrew Sullivan

"Ascot Advocate" – Joemygod

"Ascot-Wearing" – Gawker

"Wearing An Ascot" – The Awl

"Wearing An Ascot" – Huffington Thing

"Wearing a Gold Ascot" – The Gospel According to Hate

"Does This Gold-Flecked Ascot Make Me Look Ex-Gay? – Towleroad

Mary, please! I'm so disappointed in you!

Let's get back to the question posed in the title of this post: when is an ascot not an ascot? Well, it's a trick question, because it's not an ascot. Dearies, that is a scarf, a very, very gay scarf, and it's tied in what is called a "European Loop."

11 comments:

Thank you for paying attention to the details since nobody else seems to be doing so. In the video, I love that he associates witchcraft, homosexuals, the mafia, and San Francisco General Hospital all in one sentence.

Well, duh. Of course that's not an Ascot. Thank you for speaking up for us effete Ascot-wearers everywhere.

One of the more embarrassing aspects of this flaming queen's video is that neck scarf in all its gold-flecked vulgarity. My fave moment is, when describing his deflowering of his wife on their wedding night (all my straight friends do that, describe it, I mean) he screams "Jessssussssssssssss!" Girlfriend can etch glass with that sibilance.

He is, however, not merely a deranged queen reliving disco. He is a straight-for-pay professional homo-hater affiliated with Lou Engle Jr's 'mission to the Castro'. He is therefore used to extort money from old ladies in Waukeegan who will believe any kind of flim-flammery, it seems.